Food which makes your heart sink

[GnomeDePlume]

Do you have a meal/food which when suggested just makes your heart sink?

For me it is boiled bacon. It just sounds so dreary. Whenever DH suggests it for dinner I am instantly thrown back to childhood and salty boiled bacon cooked in brine served up with boiled to death sliced carrots and fallen boiled potatoes.

DH actually cooks it really well, he rinses the joint thoroughly and cooks it with apples and sometimes cider as well. He serves it with crushed roast potatoes and peas or beans.

But the words 'boiled bacon' take me back to childhood and the dreary, salty meal.

Does anyone else have similar instant responses to certain foods?

I know this is a first world problem and I am lucky to have choices and a DH who cooks most meals.

@AlphaAlpha i always wonder how well that sort of stuff would sell if it was sold as “not assembled”.

I’ve never had boiled back and assume it’s just a gammon?

Weirdly I had a craving for gammon and parsley sauce the other day. On my own so just thought I’d buy a ready meal variant. None anywhere so I spent a fortune buying the bits from scratch. Yummy though.

Eggs.

I actually like eggs but the idea of anyone else cooking them makes me feel ill.

Burgers /meat joints with the potential of gristle 🤢 the word conjures it up perfectly.

Quorn - tastes like something industrial that somehow (an administrative error maybe?) has been repurposed as a foodstuff

Boiled carrots are sad especially sliced and cooked for too long so that they lose texture, flavour and the colour is starting to go grey. Not drained properly then dropped onto the plate with a little puddle of the water they were cooked in.

Anything with fresh coriander in it. I can taste the tiniest bit of it and the rest of the meal is ruined. May as well pour washing up liquid in my food as that's what the horrid stuff tastes like to me!

Any risotto - the clagginess of it.

Spaghetti Bolognese - I actually like it but see it as a tedious, unoriginal go-to. I bore myself when I make it (occasionally).

Tinned corned beef. It’s so much nicer sliced from the deli counter.

Chilli, can't bear it and it is so often served at friends' dinners. 😕

Not that keen on beef either, as it always seems to lie so heavily in my stomach.

Ratatouille
Chicken cacciatore
Both staples in our house when I was growing up. Both repulsive (or they were the way my Mum made them anyway! 😂)

Anything served with mashed potatoes and no gravy.
DHs favourite meal is lamb chops, mash and peas. My heart sinks every time he says he's cooking it for tea.
And before anyone says just make a jug of gravy, we only have proper gravy made from scratch with meat juices in this house and you don't get meat juices from grilled chops.

“Come over for a BBQ” fills me with dread. I never do burgers and sausages etc myself, it’s always Indian or Korean or Japanese etc marinaded meat (not much) with loads of leafy greens and some rice. But the generic BBQ thing makes my heart sink.

I’ll never eat “meat substitutes”. It’s junk food that also made me feel quite sink the tries I gave it.

Absolutely gross!

I like raw carrots, grated into salads. On a roast dinner, carrots should be roasted

I frequently get that feeling if I go out to a perfectly ordinary restaurant only to find that the few dishes I like the sound of have all been chillified. So something that sounds absolutely delicious will be described as having red chilli flakes in it. Something which would NEVER had been so adulterated 15 years ago.
I am a super taster, which means that I can detect even minute quantities of things I don't like in a dish.
What REALLY made my heart sink though, was going round to my son in law's for Sunday lunch when he was cooking beef. It was a beautiful joint and he is a very good cook. However, when I was him preparing the beef I could have wept, as he was carefully massaging in a huge quantity of English mustard. I can't eat mustard. I ended up just having the veg.

Goat's cheese
Olives
Fish in white sauce - looks and smells like sick
Coleslaw - see above

Tinned tomatoes are sad. Hotel cooked breakfast and someone has emptied an industrial quantity of them into a serving dish to keep warm. They sit there just looking sad and bloated.

I had red xabbage once and it was bitter. Is that not what it is supposed to be like?

I can't get excited about pizza. I'd almost always rather have something else - unless actually in Italy! yes, I am that kind of snob.

I'll eat it but it doesn't do much for me.

Any type of pasta dish, even lasagne.
Sweet potatoes.

I love spare ribs but I don't order them when I'm out because they're always in a 'bbq sauce'. It just tastes of smokey calpol to me.

Boiled bacon is lovely. Gammon is rom the hindleg and a type of boiled bacon if you boil it. Bacon joints are from other areas of the pig but basically the same.

As a kid I always loved roast bacon joint, (yum! coat with marmalade before putting in the oven!) boiled bacon, boiled beef (and carrots!), cold roast beef or lamb (left over from Sunday roast) - even though now I'm vegetarian, I have memories.

@GnomeDePlume I don't think red cabbage is meant to be bitter. It is usually cooked sort of sweet and sour, with vinegar and apples, brown sugar and maybe sultanas and spices - I don't like it that way. My DH makes a delicious coleslaw with red cabbage, and I really really like red cabbage done the way it is served with a kebab, raw but marinated. If anyone knows how they do it I would really love to know! No fancy recipes please, I want it just the same as from a kebab shop.

Goats cheese- I love quiche but why on earth is it in every quiche - its disgusting, i actually made a request to our canteen please get quiches that don't have goats cheese in them

Mashed potatoes with spring onion in it - its vile, and worse its actually a quite common thing at functions including weddings i go to for some strange reason
Roast beef - smell of it makes me hurl, i blame my mother, every Sunday dinner was roast beef as a child, if you didn't like it was force feed or left sitting for hours until eaten

A pub Sunday Roast. In fact I’ve stopped eating at pubs on Sundays as this is often all that’s available and it’s so dismal. Overcooked meat drowned in salty thick gravy.

Baked chicken breast. Especially wrapped in bacon. Big lump of dry protein, and no the bacon doesn’t disguise the lack of taste of the chicken.

Ratatouille. Never had one that tasted of anything.

Buffet - when it's beige soggy pastry things fromthe freezer
Chinese takeaway - sloppy gloopy crap bearing very little resemblance to real food
Chilli - it's like shit bolognaise
Shop-bought cake - you're meant to enjoy it, it's expensive, but it's like having furniture foam in your mouth
A lot of Indian takeaway - we have a really good one near us and it's spoiled the others for me!

@Catsmere I don't like mayonnaise either! However my husband makes a really good coleslaw using ready made dip instead of mayonnaise. Usually sour cream and chive, but sometimes onion and garlic.